Everyone knows them, and once in a while this “challenge” will pop up on social media again. You get some simple image and the deceptively simple question of “how many rectangles do you see?” or “how many triangles in this image?”
If done well, we believe, this is actually a great challenge. If the image is simple enough, and counting the shapes isn’t tricksy and annoying, then this is a great exercise. That’s why we designed the Shapeseeing bundle, which contains 12 such challenges, which grow harder and harder as you go.
Because you need to count how often a shape appears, some vague skill with counting is necessary in the Apprentice, even if it’s only using their fingers. (Most numbers are around or below 10.)
Continue Exploring
Exhausted this resource? Below is a list of all resources (in this and other factions) around this same topic.
- The Shapesquare Stories
- Court of King Triangle
- Defend the Palishapes!
- Fortis
- Game of Shapelock
- Pentomino Games
- Shapastimes
- Shapeways
- Spinnershapes
- Strateshape
- Tangram Games
- Jigsaw Puzzlepack
- Potent Pentominoes
- Shapelings
- Tricksy Tangrams
- Quiz of Shape
- The Treasure of Squaro
- The Colorshape Tests
- My First Shapes
- Shape Animal Cards
- Shapeseeing
Product Contents
Below is a summary of this product's contents. The actual product might have even more inside, but never less.
- 12 Challenges to count how often a shape appears in a (simple) image
- Each challenge tests a new basic shape and provides an illustrated answer at the bottom.